About the Author

Benjamin Johncock was born in England in 1978. His short stories
have been published by The Fiction Desk and The Junket. He is the
recipient of an Arts Council England grant and the American
Literary Merit Award, and is a winner of Comma Press's National
Short Story Day competition. He also writes for the Guardian. He
lives in Norwich, England, with his wife, his daughter, and his
son. The Last Pilot is his first novel.

Reviews

'By far the best debut novel I've read in years - it reads like the
the reclusive disciple of Cormac McCarthy and St-Exupery'. - Joanne
Harris